Machine Learning

STAT 313

Supervised Learning

Supervises algorithms that are used to classify data or predict outcomes

Unsupervised Learning

Allows computers to learn patterns in the dataset without the need for human intervention


Data is Power

Intersectional Feminism

Focuses on the distribution of power — who has it and who doesn’t

Intersectionality is a concept out of Black feminism, conceptually derived by the Combahee River Collective and linguistically created by Kimberlee Crenshaw.

“Data is the new oil.”

The Economist, Intel CEO, Reliance Industrices CEO, UAE Minister of Artifical Intelligence, Google execs, etc., mainly elite white men

“Data is the same old oppression.”

BIWOC, white women, Indigenous people, immigrant communities, LGBTQ+ individuals, + more

Joy Buolamwini found that she had to put on a white mask for the facial detection program to “see” her face.

Proposition 25